In article <[email protected]>, Dave Crocker <[email protected]> wrote: >On 7/18/2020 5:16 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: >> At some point in the past, Gmail decided to show the email address >> only unless that address was in the recipient's contact list, > >btw, I just logged in to gmail's web interface -- I normally access via >imap -- and it is only showing display-name text. No email address for >any of the messages. As far as I can tell, I have no address book at gmail.
I just sent my Gmail account a test message from an address that never existed before, and it only showed the display name in the web site and the iOS and Android apps. This tells us that at least at one big gorilla, the header address isn't something that users see. This leads to two questions, one being why the From address is a better authentication handle than, say, DKIM d=. The other is that if the users don't see the address, why do we care if mailing lists change it? I think I have some reasonable answers, starting with the way it screws up replies. something we know from experience that Reply-To can't fix. R's, John -- Regards, John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
_______________________________________________ dmarc mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc
